Workshops 2

Beyond Shakespeare: Global Classics

Mondays Starting September , 2014 (10 Sessions)

Intensive training in Actng Global Classics, comparative script analysis and global character and performance development. Classic theatre forms informed by disciples of East Asia and Africa push the envelope of what’s possible on stage. Discover classic writers through techniques taught at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and The National Shakespeare Conservatory, including Shakespeare. Class email picture/ resume and request to necartz@gmail.com or call (347) 560-3312

Connect with directors, instructors and staff for career development.

Promotion of your work online

Field research with the team of NEC Training Program members

Michael Chehkov character development used on Broadway by Peter Lobdell in the original Elephant Man

Award Winning Instructors, passionate about shaping the actors’ voice, physical and emotional presence, while expanding the professional actors’ tool box for work in classic and contemporary works, both ethnic and mainstream. Our techniques include:

African, Latin , Native and Asian physical disciples, dramaturgy, songs and methods expand the Actor’s tool box and are used to explore the Classic Plays of the NEC Archives and other period classics, ex., Lorca, Soyinka, Moliere, Pinter, Shakespeare. How does the actor deal with different writing styles and periods.

“It was a great honor to work with Marie McKinney – she is a well of information: historical facts. literature, theater, grants, voice, movement… like coming across a “rare groove” when that groove hits you for the first time, it stays with you a long time. Really powerful stuff, with a lot of layers drama/comedy/accents! She is very in touch with how to develop strong characters .I gained a lot of knowledge and confidence in her class, and I had it inside of me the whole time, but she helped bring it out.I was a little green to the whole classical theater that the NEC is famous for. Marie is a very strong actress herself so there are a lot of gems you get just by listening when she speaks.” Kymbali Craig in Film Low Low, Bailey’s Cafe, The Passage: Stories of the MAAFA KYMBALI CRAIG